Category: exercise
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Why do I run and do the crazy things I do?
Recently some people have been asking me why the hell did I start running and dress in running shorts all the time? Why did I do the crazy push-ups? I don’t know why I felt ashamed to admit it before. This is no shame, nothing wrong with what I have. I’ve been diagnosed with depression…
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Run: From Yahoo To (evil) Fry’s
Fry’s is evil, they tempt you with candy when you check out. But sometimes you need to go inside, there’s no way around it. I needed to buy a SD PCMCIA card reader today before I leave for vacation on Saturday. So I decided to run over to Fry’s. I wasn’t sure I could make…
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Finished first ever Bay To Breakers (0:58:54, place #752!!)
Update: Official finish time is 0:58:54, place #752!! (I’m in the Fun Runners division). Some photo proofs they took while I was running Out of 31,246 people, 751 came in faster than I did in the entire race. I’m very proud that after only 3 months of semi-intense running and having never done any running…
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Menlo Park: a different world
Tonight I took the train to Menlo Park to pick up a used jogger stroller for Kate. First time in the city, didn’t know what to expect. I was surprised at how huge the houses were!! They were like mansions, all with gates and walls. This is unreal. I was running thru the city and…
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It’s official, I’m crazy: 1,500 push ups in 12 hours
Ok, you knew it would happen one day. I’ve lost my mind. Ever since I started this fitness craze and started doing 500 push ups, 1,000 push ups, you knew the day would come when I would try 1,500. Well today was it. I just finished 1,500 push ups tonight! When I’ve tried for it…
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run: Hayes Ashbury
I had no plans for this Saturday’s run so I just let it flow. Here was the route and it turned out to be really enjoyable. Folsom & 4th to Market & Larkin Log: 1.5 mile Run thru the Civic Center Plaza under the row of trees. Log .4 mile along Fell to Ashbury Log:…
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Nightmare on Caltrain Street
It’s one of those nights that I want to forget. I took the 7pm Caltrains to SF last night. The machine validator for the 10-ride ticket at Mountain View station was broken so I thought I’ll just get it validated on the train. At the San Carlos station, the people checking the tickets were in…
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Freedom Of Running
Google Map: My parents’ house to Dublin Bart I’ve been busy with the Y! News launch last week, have not updated my run log. Running really gives me a lot of freedom to go anywhere I want without having to drive or carry around a bike and helmet. I have very traditional chinese parents who…
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Race: Cable Car Chase 2005
Finished the ANA Cable Car Chase this Sunday morning. Highlights: We didn’t get to really chase the cable cars, just chase a looked alike on rubber wheels. The biggest 10-12 block hill I’ve ever experienced on California from Drumm to Larkin, almost everyone near my pace level were walking the hills, it was a sad…
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Plans Don’t Always Work Out As Planned….
(I was running with the silver Axio backpack) I’m commuting from SF by cal trains nowadays whenever I don’t need to drive Kate. Yahoo has a shuttle that picks up from Mountain View and gets to the campus 24 minutes after the train arrives. That’s not a bad deal until one day they never showed…